Bill Murray Quotes
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I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.
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It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out.
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Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
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No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.
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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.
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I'm a melancholy person. It's how I'm always going to be.
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I know I said I wanted to live forever and I would never be bored, but the reality is, it's probably kind of sad to live forever if you're the only one sticking around.
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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
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When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying.
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Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.
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A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.
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To me, the job of a playwright is to explore and bring to light our lives. You can't hold back; you have to give in to this. Sometimes, you say things people don't want to hear.
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The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I always wanted to be a writer. Maybe, had I been brought up in another generation, I might have just gone into writing rather than medicine - which is not to say that I didn't also have a great attraction towards the idea of being a healer. Fortunately, I've been able to combine the two in ways I could never possibly have imagined.
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I wasn't ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know?
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I find that when I'm struggling to think of how a six-year-old would feel about something, I just have to go right down to the common denominator, find the simplest way that you can look at an object or a problem, and not muck it up with all of the stuff that adults do and over-analyze.
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When I was taken to the concentration camp of Auschwitz, a manuscript of mine ready for publication was confiscated. Certainly, my deep desire to write this manuscript anew helped me to survive the rigors of the camps I was in.
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A teddy bear does not depend upon mechanics to give him the semblance of life. He is loved - and therefore he lives.
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If Clark Gable had a Facebook page, there would have been a 'Gone with the Wind 2.'
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After initially trying to defend his remarks about gun-toting, tabacky-chewing, bitter Jesus freaks, Barack Obama is now backpedaling furiously.
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I know how to be sour. I know that taste.
